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Things to do in Denver…


Cool! A lot of fans want to make a fan film – hell, I want to make a fan film – but few actually make any head way.
Hank Braxtan and Co. is giving it all they’ve got. And the result, barring meteor strike, is
Freddy vs. Ghostbusters. The website shows that the crew has done an impressive amount of work, not only props wise and location shooting,
but special effects and make-up. The result should be veeeeery interesting and I’m certainly looking forward to it.

Some of you might think, say, why is a fan film bumping the kickass comic covers down? Well, what better post for a Valentines
Day than some ghosthead’s labour of love?

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GB script by committee.

Tired of waiting, forever waiting, for a third Ghostbusters movie? Forget about it, make your own! Well, not entirely on your own.
Fanlibs is a
community driven script creation site, where people submit new scenes to an ongoing script – other members get to review and vote on your
scene and the winner gets added to the forever growing script.
And how do they know when to quit you might ask? I don’t know, it’s still too young a site – they haven’t finished a script yet, but the
test run is a Ghostbusters script – Ghostbusters: The Things that Ate Hollywood!.
“A former drive-in movie producer dreams of making one last great (well, LARGE) creature-feature. But now, Tinseltown is cruel to the old master (er, incessant hack). When a fatal accident delivers him to the ectoplasmic underworld, his monstrous celluloid creations go on a vengeful rampage among the living!”

The site is pretty feature filled, including a system
of automatically formatting your submission into proper script style. Nice!
At the very least it’s something new for GB fans to read and if you’ve always wanted to try your hand at writing,
why not contribute something?

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Now That’s Hardcore

And I thought my model was pretty good. Check out this guy’s Ecto-1a (using the old AMT/ERTL kit) at CultTVMan.com. For a kit that included an on-board PC and cel-phone (anybody remember seeing those in the movie?) some obvious details were left out – like proton packs. Modeler Jim Davis decided to take care of that and in his version he added the packs, their holding rack, slime thrower, a ghost trap, ecto goggles, gloves, and even a copy of Time magazine, with the GB’s on the cover. How sweet is that?

For even more photos and a complete walk-through of the project, check out Jim’s walkthrough. He talks about what he added and how he added them. Of extra interest is the how he noticed how the model doesn’t include a part of the equipment on the roof, despite the fact that it appears in the movie and on the cover of the box, and that the license plate is in the wrong spot! Shame, shame ERTL and AMT. I look forward to seeing what he does with the new Polar Lights kit (see below).

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“Listen! You smell what the Rock is Cookin’?”

Pretty funny stuff.

A fan at this weeks WWF RAW telecast was holding up a sign that said “SLIMER 3:16”. A Ghostbustin’ nod to the famous “AUSTIN 3:16” (as in Steve Austin. Fans often spoof the sign), which is itself a nod to the even more famous “JOHN 3:16” signs made part of popular culture by that guy who used to show up at sporting events with his sign and a rainbow fright wig. He has a name, I just can’t remember it.

Thanks to Paul at Spook Central for the use of the picture. Click on the picture or link to see Paul’s much better and more complete screen grab.